NYT Obtains Trump's Tax Returns From...1995

[FAH1223]

one of the most puzzling things about trump is how he seems to succeed at connecting with "regular"/"blue-collar"/middle-to-lower class types. he's a wealthy dude with access and influence in government, he unapologetically uses foreign manufacturing and workers, he happily uses his means to shirk taxes in ways they could never even dream of, he stiffs "the little guy", etc. he basically is the living embodiment of everything they rally against. he's literally done everything that HE himself rallies against.

yet they eat it up all this "i'm gonna fight for you!" shyt and actually buy what he's selling. like, how the fukk can you really believe that donald j. trump, the famously self-serving, egomaniacal, blowhard is actually really running for president to fundamentally change shyt to work against himself.

It's a wider issue that goes back 40 years

The working and middle class in this country have been hypnotized to believe government is the enemy by the rich ruling class. And then they're told to vote against their own interests at every level as if tax cuts and corporate welfare helps the ordinary person.

It's truly remarkable what the neoliberal order has accomplished.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

In the case of taxes? Yeah ...

You should have just left it at that and spared me the rest of your spiel. This is all I needed to know.

 

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

I have my accountants work overtime to minimize my tax liability legally


But I'm not running for office so I don't have to deal with the optics

 

[Foxmulder]

Financially illiterate nikkas have exposed themselves in this thread...

I dont blame him IF he did carry that Net Operating Loss for as long as possible...why should he give the Government $ I000,000,000 dollars to go buy more bombs to drop on poor people if the tax code says he doesnt have to.

You dumb nikkas act like if you had the choice you would cheerfully give the IRS a BILLION DOLLARS of YOUR hard earned money just because your some kind of super patriotic idiot



He probably used it to expand his business create jobs and contracts for other people...That 1 Billion did more for America with trump spending it than the Pentagon.

The only dumb one is you. Trump's whole campaign is he's and outsider fighting for the little guy. All he is is phony. Who got dumbasses like you for every stupid shyt he does or says. Have you no shame or dignity.

 

[ⒶⓁⒾⒶⓈ]

Its odd how Hillary doesnt mention who was in full control of the IRS and Treasury in 95 and could have changed the tax code

 

[Mr.Logic]

Equate having slaves to not paying more then the minimum amount of taxes, breh.

You do realize tons of people do their taxes this way, not just Trump, don't you?

During the Great Recession when everyone was taking losses it was common place.

(1) I am not equating owning slaves to avoiding paying taxes...I am not even going at Trump...

(2) I am going at the idea that a certain behavior can be justified by saying "If it is legal, it is okay"...

 

[ⒶⓁⒾⒶⓈ]

The only dumb one is you. Trump's whole campaign is he's and outsider fighting for the little guy. All he is is phony. Who got dumbasses like you for every stupid shyt he does or says. Have you no shame or dignity.

Man STFU with your generalizations....I criticize where it due and dont fall under the propaganda spell of old witches like you double digit IQ nikkas

Your whole response is an embarassing non sequitur ...go have a snack get your blood sugar up and maybe you can compose even a moderately relevant response...

Being a billionaire doesnt make him a political outsider?? really

He has to pay more than the law required to not be phony??? FOH

how many time have YOU paid extra taxes just because you love the govt... OH wait ..NEVER...then perhaps youre the phony

 

[bzb]

Of course his accountants played sorcery with tax laws...that's their job lol. Do you not use accountants to find deductions in your tax liabilities? The tax code is notoriously byzantine, most people have to rely on experts to reduce their liability. To say the IRS simply doesn't have the resources to find something on Trump is just conjecture based on your dislike of Trump. If you have any evidence of Trump breaking the tax law, please forward it to the proper authorities.

if he would release his returns i'm sure we could find evidence that he bent the tax law to the point of breaking it. whether he broke the law or not doesn't seem to be a concern of yours though. just that he's able to get away with it and hasn't been caught (yet) is good enough for you.

First, there's an obvious difference between murder and not paying one's taxes.

the principle is the same. these are people with significant resources playing in the margins of the law for personal benefit, to the detriment of others. if they were regular people or black they would be prosecuted and convicted.

Second, the anger at the Zimmerman verdict should be directed at the judicial system that allowed him to get away with it, just like the anger at Trump being able to legally pay next to no taxes should be directed at the political system that allows him to do so. To focus on the individual is missing the forest for the trees.

hold up...you need to rethink your comment on zimmerman here. he clearly profiled trayvon and pressed the issue which led to trayvon's death. the anger should absolutely be directed at him. and you're on some real questionable bs saying anger shouldn't be directed at him. got kap all in your avy like you about black lives matter, but your posts and support of trump be on some all lives matter. i see you trying to play both sides of the fence


and the anger directed at trump in this instance is warranted. his credentials to be potus are based on false pretenses. he's not a successful business man, but a conniving con man with resources. the fact that he's creating a pretzel out of the tax code to cover it up so he doesn't get exposed as a fraud doesn't mean people should be ok with it. and it's not just about trump, but also what republicans want to trickle down to the rest of the country under a trump presidency. there is a clear parallel for the all lives matter republican platform and trump's attitude of not giving a fukk as long as it makes business sense to them. him and the republicans will make lives worse for the people who already have it rough and then justify it by saying it's smart business move (for them). just like he did when discriminating against black people in his housing developments and all of the other bs he does in the name of being successful business man.

 

[Foxmulder]

Man STFU with your generalizations....I criticize where it due and dont fall under the propaganda spell of old witches like you double digit IQ nikkas

Your whole response is an embarassing non sequitur ...go have a snack get your blood sugar up and maybe you can compose even a moderately relevant response...

Being a billionaire doesnt make him a political outsider?? really

He has to pay more than the law required to not be phony??? FOH

how many time have YOU paid extra taxes just because you love the govt... OH wait ..NEVER...then perhaps youre the phony

You're a dumbass. Trump fukking admitted he bribes politicians. He fukking said when he needs a favor their there for him. But he's an outsider? Your fukking stupid.

 

[King Kreole]

You should have just left it at that and spared me the rest of your spiel. This is all I needed to know.

 

[ill]

So he did nothing illegal?

Seems like none of you guys took basic business classes. He has a legal obligation to his shareholders and is exploiting legal loopholes.

It might bother you morally but its perfectly legal and its what his investors want.

He's stated he knows the code better than most, which I believe, so the real question here is whether he will actually change the system if elected.

Him taking advantage of the system thats been in place before his time does not put the blame on him. It puts the blame on our previous governments for enabling shyt head behavior.

 

[Robbie3000]

The only dumb one is you. Trump's whole campaign is he's and outsider fighting for the little guy. All he is is phony. Who got dumbasses like you for every stupid shyt he does or says. Have you no shame or dignity.

Breh. Trump is a master conman. He has created a cult of personality so strong that he could literally shoot someone in the middle of Broadway and his lemmings would still defend him. That's how much they have invested in him.

The guy's only talent it seems is being a conman that knows how to manipulate people. That's all he has ever being really good at.

 

[Foxmulder]

“I give to everybody. When they call, I give.”
“You know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me. " The political outsider Donald Trump y'all.

 

[Robbie3000]

And at this coming from Trump Tower. Ivanka has had enough and can't imagine this bafoon as president.

 

[ⒶⓁⒾⒶⓈ]

You're a dumbass. Trump fukking admitted he bribes politicians. He fukking said when he needs a favor their there for him. But he's an outsider? Your fukking stupid.

So do many other business people especially in heavily regulated markets...You think the banks and pharmaceutical companies bankrolling hillary REALLY believe in that "stronger together" nonsense?

Outsider in this sense meant politically...I see youre having trouble keeping up with simple concepts.